Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colts on the Campus...
...part of the "silent generation," stuttering in apathy with signs of decadence all around campus and submissive suffering on the faces of my fellow students. We shook our heads, walked away, and paid our dues for four years. But these student activists are getting things done-congratulations...
...time, calm seemed to be returning to Columbia University. Last week, though, the troubled Morningside Heights campus was shaken by another ugly, brutal pitched battle between students and police-providing a clear indication that the university's problems are far from over...
...news of the arrests spread across campus, other students began jeering at police, tearing bricks from sidewalks to hurl through windows, and constructing barricades at campus entrances. Fires were lit in two academic buildings; in one, the unpublished research papers of an unpopular professor were used as kindling to feed the flames...
...Library, hooligans shattered windows in the office of President Kirk, who finally gave the order for police to clear the campus. When a brick slammed into the face of a patrolman, 1,000 outraged police charged through the crowd, swinging night sticks and chasing students up the stairs of their dormitories. By the time an uneasy peace was restored, 68 people-including 17 policemen-had been injured, and 177 persons were under arrest...